Christopher Morley
"When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean."
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"When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean."
"عندما تبيع رجلاً كتاباً، لا تبيعه اثني عشر أونصة من الورق والحبر والصمغ فحسب، بل تبيعه حياة جديدة بأكملها. حب وصداقة وروح دعابة وسفن في عرض البحر ليلاً—هناك كل ما في السماء والأرض في كتاب، كتاب حقيقي أعني."
Christopher Morley
Parnassus on Wheels
"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
"لا تخطئ العين كتابًا حقيقيًا حين تلقاه، إنه كوقوع المرء في الحب."
Christopher Morley
Pipefuls
"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
"مشكلة الزواج أن فيه من الوصال قليل، ومن القيد كثير."
Christopher Morley
"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."
"الجمال في فؤاد المنفرد طيفٌ عابرٌ لا يستبين. هي زائرةٌ تخلفُ وراءها هبةَ الأسى، وتذكارَ الوجع."
Christopher Morley
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
"لا أحد يُقدّر عبقرية حديثك الفريدة كما يفعل الكلب."
Christopher Morley
"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."
"من الآن وحتى آخر الدهر، لن يرى أحد الحياة بعينيّ، وإني عازمٌ على اغتنام فرصتي خير اغتنام."
Christopher Morley
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
"القلوب المثقلة، كالسحب الثقيلة في السماء، لا يريحها خيرًا إلا انهمار قليل من الماء."
Christopher Morley
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
"تتألف الحياة الطيبة من ثلاثة أركان: العلم، والعمل، والطموح."
Christopher Morley
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
"لا قاعدة للحديث الجيد إلا واحدة: تعلّم الإصغاء."
Christopher Morley
"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."
"الرجل الذي لم يثر غضب امرأة قط، هو فاشل في الحياة."
Christopher Morley
"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."
"الفكاهة ربما هي إحساس بمنظور فكري: وعي بأن بعض الأمور ذات أهمية حقيقية، وأخرى ليست كذلك؛ وأن هذين النوعين يختلطان بغرابة شديدة في شؤون الحياة اليومية."
Christopher Morley
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
"تصرّف وكأنك واثق من بلوغ المرمى."
Christopher Morley
"When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life."
Christopher Morley
"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature."
Christopher Morley
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
Christopher Morley
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
Christopher Morley
"There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way."
Christopher Morley
"My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed."
Christopher Morley
"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment."
Christopher Morley
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
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